Microbiome and virome of FMT patient over time, how well do animal models predict natural microbial activities, goats!, Neolithic vs. modern soil, truffles, and a medieval church.
Human gut microbiome
Long-term microbiota and virome in a Zürich patient after fecal transplantation against Clostridium difficile infection – Felix Broecker – Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Perspective: Nutrition and the microbiome – Karin Moelling – Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Entitled denigrating view of African research, unclear background or IRB approval of volunteers from Africa: Significant pharmacokinetic differences of berberine are attributable to variations in gut microbiota between Africans and Chinese – Raphael N. Alolga – Scientific Reports
Conference report: A Summary of The First HIV Microbiome Workshop 2015 – Brett Williams – AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
Infection and microbes
No mention of extraction or PCR controls, and most OTUs are shared between samples, so suspicious for contamination. Proceed with caution: High-throughput sequencing of microbial diversity in implant-associated infection – Xin Wang – Infection, Genetics and Evolution
Animal experiments
Metabolomics insights into the modulatory effects of long term low calorie intake in mice – Junfang Wu – Journal of Proteome Research
Perspective: A synthetic ecology perspective: how well does behavior of model organisms in the laboratory predict microbial activities in natural habitats? – Zheng Yu – Frontiers in Microbiology
Animal microbiome
Age and feeding system (supplemental feeding versus grazing) modulates colonic bacterial succession and host mucosal immune maturation in goats – J. Jiao – Journal of Animal Science
Evaluation of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing using two next-generation sequencing technologies for phylogenetic analysis of the rumen bacterial community in steers – Phillip R. Myer – Journal of Microbiological Methods
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
A buried Neolithic paddy soil reveals loss of microbial functional diversity after modern rice cultivation – Yong-Guan Zhu – Science Bulletin
Mycorrhizal detection of native and non-native truffles in a historic arboretum and the discovery of a new North American species, Tuber arnoldianum sp. nov. – Rosanne A. Healy – Mycorrhiza
Beneficial native bacteria improve survival and mycorrhization of desert truffle mycorrhizal plants in nursery conditions – Alfonso Navarro-Ródenas – Mycorrhiza
Nutrient limitation drives response of Calamagrostis epigejos to arbuscular mycorrhiza in primary succession – Jana Rydlová – Mycorrhiza
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00572-016-0712-5
Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungal diversity are linked to different tree community attributes in a field-based tree experiment – Nhu H. Nguyen – Molecular Ecology
Long-term effect of plastic film mulching and fertilization on bacterial communities in a brown soil revealed by high through-put sequencing – John Farmer – Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science
Resilience of Fungal Communities to Elevated CO2 – Stavros D. Veresoglou – Microbial Ecology
Review: Life in heaps: A review of microbial responses to variable acidity in sulfide mineral bioleaching heaps for metal extraction – D.W. Shiers – Research in Microbiology
Review: Giving back to the community: Microbial mechanisms of plant-soil interactions – Sur Herrera Paredes – Functional Ecology
Perspective: History Leaves Its Mark on Soil Bacterial Diversity – Jennifer B. H. Martiny – mBio
Water and extremophile microbiome
Characterizing and predicting cyanobacterial blooms in an 8-year amplicon sequencing time-course – Nicolas Tromas – bioRxiv
Response of a coastal tropical pelagic microbial community to changing salinity and temperature – Gurpreet Kaur-Kahlon – Inter-Research in Aquatic Microbial Ecology
Bacterial communities in Arctic first-year drift ice during the winter/spring transition – E. Eronen-Rasimus – Environmental Microbiology Reports
Diversity and distribution of prokaryotes within a shallow-water pockmark field – Donato Giovannelli – Frontiers in Microbiology
Mainly about animals: Life in a dark biosphere: a review of circadian physiology in “arrhythmic” environments – Andrew David Beale – Journal of Comparative Physiology B
Site-specific environmental factors control bacterial and viral diversity in stormwater retention ponds – Matthew A. Saxton – Inter-Research in Aquatic Microbial Ecology
Built environment microbiome
Profile of microbial communities on carbonate stones of the medieval church of San Leonardo di Siponto (Italy) by Illumina-based deep sequencing – Guglielmina Chimienti – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Food microbiology
Cascade degradation of organic matters in brewery wastewater using a continuous stirred microbial electrochemical reactor and analysis of microbial communities – Haiman Wang – Scientific Reports
Bioinformatics and computational biology
Advancing microbial sciences by individual-based modelling – Ferdi L. Hellweger – Nature Reviews Microbiology
Microbes in the news
A Portrait of a Building and its External Inhabitants – Makayla Betts – MicroBEnet
Woman meets Winnipeg researchers whose Ebola treatment saved her life – Bill Redekop – Winnipeg Free Press
Tackling healthcare challenges in a changing world: an interview with Professor Jeremy Nicholson – News Medical
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